When I clean the tank........

Mackeral61 · Post by **Mackeral61** » Wed May 28, 2008 4:42 pm

I'm about to go through the process of cleaning the rust from my tank on a 85 Spree.....when I removed the petcock is looked pretty nasty on the inside...can that be soaked in the carb cleaner stuff....it doesnt look like it can rust....but the inside(looking through the top hole) looks pretty brownish. I can order a new one from a dealeship for around 50 bucks...or I think E Bay had one...or maybe someone here has one to sell.

Kenny_McCormic · Post by **Kenny_McCormic** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:10 pm

Worst case you can cap the vac nipples and break the diaphragm with compressed air.

Scalpel · Post by **Scalpel** » Wed May 28, 2008 5:56 pm

I'm in the same boat. I've sprayed mine out with carb cleaner and canned air, but I'm curious whether that will be enough. Is there anything inside there that I just dissolved by doing this, or should it be okay?

Mackeral61 · Post by **Mackeral61** » Wed May 28, 2008 6:13 pm

OK...just ordered a new one off EBay for 31 bucks including shipping...the description says...New Vacuum Petcock Honda Elite 50 SA SE 50 NQ NB Spree....it looks by the picture to be the same thing...I hope I've done the right thing

Post by **noiseguy** » Thu May 29, 2008 1:23 am

Soak the petcock in clean gas usually works. Carb cleaner will eat up the diaphragm if you're not careful.